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Uwrrno STATES PATENT Gr ntee.

ADRIAN O. SELBY, OF MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY.

SOAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,445, dated March 1,1881.

Application filed July 30, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ADRIAN CLAYTON SELBY, ofMaysville, in the county of Mason and State of Kentucky, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Soap; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved soap that isadapted to all of the household uses, for cleaning clothing and fabrics,furniture, tinware, and for toilet use, the properties of the soap beingsuch that it will remove grease, ink, and iron stains from fabricswithout changing their color and cansing the colored figures of thefabric to run upon the lighter ground.

My improved soap is composed of the following-named ingredients:sal-soda, unslaked lime, soft water, bar-soap, resin, alum, borax,beuzine, salt of lemon, and cream of tartar.

To make twenty pounds of the soap, take two pounds sal-soda and one andone-fourth pound of good lump unslaked lime. Put the sal-soda and limetogether in a large bowl, churn, or crock, and pour over them two andone-eighth gallons of boiling water. (The water must be soft and boilingwhen poured.) Wait five minutes, and then stir it well and let itsettle. Then take eight pounds of hard bar-soap, cut it into thinpieces, and put it in a large pan or kettle, and mix two ounces ofpulverized resin with the soap. Then pour off the lime and sal-sodasolution, being careful that none of its settlin gs go in on the soap.Set the mixture on the fire, and let it remain until it is welldissolved. Have one and onesixteenth pound alum and two and one-halfounces of borax dissolved together, and dissolve one ounce of salt oflemon and two ounces of cream of tartarin the same solution. Immediatelyafter taking the soap off the fire, pour in the last-named solution ofalum, 850., (about two quarts.) Stir a little, and let it cool a shorttime, and then put in one and one-half ounce benzine. Let it cool, andit is then ready to cut out.

The bar-soap used in the compound is to give the compound a body, andmake it settle into hard soap.

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The salt of lemon and cream of tartar are employed to make the soapeffectually take off iron-mold and ink-stains, and give to the compoundcertain acid properties that will not destroy the action of theingredients that have opposite chemical properties.

The resin will readily melt with the fatty constituents of the compound,and tends to dry the soap after it has been used when in contactwith theair. It will also harden the soap and prevent the soap from becomingsoft when left in the water.

Asa whole the compound is of such a nature, when dissolved in Water,that it has a. chemical effect upon the water and dirt, and will makethe dirt leave the clothing to unite with the water, after which theclothing may be rinsed, and will be found perfectly clean, without theemployment of machinery, pounding, or laboriously rubbing the clothes byhand.

I am aware that salt of lemon and cream of tartar have been usedindependently of the otheringredients for removing ink, fruit-stains,and the like from fabrics, and that the other materials employed by mehave been used separately, and such I do not claim, broadly; but thesalt of lemon and cream of tartar, when used alone upon colored fabrics,cause the dyes thereof to run, become changed, or entirely removed, andcan therefore only be employed with perfectly white goods, and areinapplicable to general household purposes. By my improvement the actionof these salts is so modified that they only attack the fugitive colors,and have no effect upon dyes applied with proper mordants, and hence myresin, alum, borax, benzine, salt of lemon, and compound can be used inthe same manner as cream of tartar, combined in the manner subordinarysoap to remove grease, as Well as ink, fruit, and other stains.

What 1 claim as new is The herein-described soap, composed of salsoda,unslaked lime, soft; Water, bar soap,

stantially as described.

ADRIAN OLA Witnesses:

M. F. MARSH, P. P. PARKER.

YTON SELBY.

